The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience shows that intelligence is the only presently acting cause of information, we can infer that intelligence is the best explanation for the information in DNA.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Lewis Mumford

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Warren Spahn

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Swami Vivekananda

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

James Joyce

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

Dean Norris

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.

Jerry Lawler

But look - he flicks his hand to the back of his neck. For such gesture one falls hopelessly in love for a lifetime.

Virginia Woolf

Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Jane Austen

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

Thomas J. Peters

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

Cathy Freeman

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

Margaret Weis, Soulforge